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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1945
Page
2
Mostly cloudy conditions move through North Carolina with light rain in the east and central portions tonight. Cooler today with partly cloudy skies and little temperature change into Tuesday.
Gov. Tobin ordered a state seizure of eastern Massachusetts street railways after 1,800 workers struck, halting service for over a million riders. Frank Murray was named to run the lines as 10 locals vote on returning to work. Dispute centers on a raise from 97 cents to 1.25 per hour with arbitration pending.
A coffin for Laval was carried from the prison gates in a hearse escorted by three official cars, including the prefect of police, the attorney general, and the local police commissioner. The procession went to Thiais cemetery where Laval’s coffin was lowered near Darnand’s grave. An adjacent plot bore the inscription Here lies an unknown collaborator.
Allied and Japanese sources note reforms debated to curb Hirohito’s power and increase Diet oversight. Gen Kuzushige Ugake is named as prospective head while government ministries drift toward demobilization. MacArthur to address the U S audience on occupation phases. Demobilization accelerates with nearly 4 million homeward, 3.8 million overseas, uniforms retained only for liaison duty.
New York stock traders started the week with a strong upturn reaching new highs last seen in 1937. Transamerica jumped over two points on a 20,000 share block, with U S Steel Bethlehem Western Union A and Tide Water Oil also advancing. Others moving ahead included Santa Fe Southern Pacific Goodrich Douglas Aircraft American Telephone Electric Power and Distillers Corp. Woolworth led the list of gains while American Airlines Chrysler General Motors Commonwealth Southern Montgomery Ward American Can Allied Chemical and Eastman Kodak showed mixed activity.
Chicago dispatch notes potato arrivals 334 on track 321 and total U S shipments Friday 1145 Saturday 1135 Sunday 84. New stocks moderate with demand varying by stock quality and region. Prices listed for U S No 1 washed and unwashed russets and various regional varieties across Washington Idaho Colorado Alaska Minnesota Wisconsin and North Dakota.
Dry Goods New York reports moderate sales of print cloths and sheetings with some firms awaiting an announced ceiling increase on British goods. Wool goods see limited allocations for Q1 next year while woolen shipments stay small and worsteds are scarce. Rayon business remains routine.
Chicago wheat prices show No 1 hard at 1.80 and No 1 red at 1.80 with other grades ranging 1.73 to 1.78 for No 3 mixed and 1.78 for No 4 mixer. Oats quotes list No 1 mixed heavy 70 to 71 percent and No 1 white heavy 71 to 73 percent with sample grades 68-70. Barley malting around 1.21, no corn sales reported.
A High Point reader reports relief from stomach gas and headaches after using Inner-Aid. The ad asserts the product cleanses bowels, clears gas, and purges sluggish liver and kidneys with 12 herbs sold at local drugstores.
Field seed per hundredweight nominal with timothy 5.25 to 5.50 dollars. Red top 11.00 to 11.50. Red clover 31.50. Alsike 28.50. Overall seed rate 1.39 percent and 1.04 to 1.23 percent.
Salable hogs 3 500 to 8 000 with active trade and steady prices for 140 lb barrows. Cattle and calves remain strong with fewer bulls and steady to higher figures. top steers and yearlings reach 18.00 while bulk grades run 14.75 to 18.00. Beef cows mostly 9.25 to 12.50, vealers 15.00 and up, heavy calves 12.50 and lower.
The Java uprising features two rebel factions seeking independence and a claimed Mohammedan holy war against the Dutch. Insurgents wield poison darts and snakes as fighting continues on Java, a rich, strategic island producing rubber, tin, and coffee with 45 million people and 200000 Dutch residents.
General Edurado Avalos and Vice Admiral Vernengo Lima consolidate power after taking cabinet posts. They ordered universities closed, reinstated dismissed professors, lifted press censorship, reshuffled the army, dispersed police in Buenos Aires, and sought resignations from Peron era interventors. President Edelmiro Farrell approved measures as he contemplates resignation.
The agency quotes a Dutch leader saying there will be no first or second class citizens as order returns and war victims are safe. He adds plans for a liberal future once stability is secured. Chicago hosts the largest U.S. telephone book at 1 736 pages.
Charles L. Kearns, campaign chairman, announced preliminary report meetings for two divisions of the Community and War Chest campaign today. Ten other divisions will hold early reporting sessions tomorrow at various times, with progress updates expected through Wednesday.
AFL representative Lewis G. Hines acting for President Green promotes a minimum wage bill raising pay from 40 to 65 cents an hour. Vinson reports only a partial victory as changes push the tax bill beyond a $5,000,000,000 limit. A Senate-House compromise is required before final passage and presidential signature.
Lt. Nettie Stafford Fortney of the Army Nurse Corps has been granted 33 days terminal leave at DeWitt General Hospital Auburn California before honorable retirement from the U S Army. Overseas 15 months in Central America near Panama she later served at Halloran General Hospital after returning home. Her husband Lt Eugene Fortney then on Guam is returning to the United States.
Alfred Shields Payne of Rt 2 is honorably discharged after four years in the armed services. He served 43 months in the Pacific and fought in three major battles in the Central Pacific Eastern Mandates and Ryukyus. He wears the Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbon with three stars the bronze service arrow head and the good conduct medal and will reside with his parents Mr and Mrs J F Payne.
Pfc. William T. Davis of High Point is discharged after 17 months in the European theatre as an airplane armorer with a heavy bombardment group. He enlisted April 1943 at Camp Croft and is 35, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Davis. prior to service he worked as a machinist for Melrose Mills.
Prec. Jim H. Hankins transferred from this air base to a separation center for an honorable discharge. He joined May 11, 1943, served as an armament worker, went overseas March 22, 1944, and returned December 22, 1944. He earned the European theater ribbon with three battle stars. His mother Mary HawkinsRt. 4 Highpoint.
Pfc Paul Davis son of Mr and Mrs Ellis Davis 801 Grimes street has received his discharge at Fort Benning Georgia He served in Germany 16 months with the 1st Army under Gen Hodges and wears two battle stars.
Two High Point navy men, Paul G. Kinney, motor machinist's mate third class USNR, aboard the USS Picka Way, missed V J and V E Day.
Reed street resident and machinist's mate O Thomas Bedenbaugh aboard the Pickaway recounts missing both V E day and V J day during 50,000 miles of Pacific travel. The ship crossed the international date line on May 8 and again as Japan signed, producing an odd sequence of holidays in a defeated nation. They also skipped the Fourth of July and enjoyed two Easters as observers across the U S zone.
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